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PHILADLEPHIA - While Penn saw some of its top wrestlers suffer losses in the dual against No. 1 Cornell last Friday, those losses did not do much damage to the national rankings of Penn's grapplers. The pollsters around the country do a good job of not penalizing wrestlers for taking on stiff challenges and losing to wrestlers inside the Top 10 is not something which should send a ranking spiraling down.

In addition to the usual weekly polls, the NCAA released a new Coaches Panel and the first RPI of the season. These two lists are big factors when automatic qualifying spots are assigned to a conference, so both are included here to show which Penn wrestlers are close to securing a bid to be obtained at the EIWA Championships in March.

Notes: Four Penn wrestlers moved up in these polls which were released before Penn's two matches in New York last weekend...Mark Rappo has been the busiest of the group in terms of matches inside the Top 33, with an 8-5 record in 13 bouts against ranked wrestlers...Rollie Peterkin is 5-2 against Top 33 wrestlers...Zack Kemmerer has had 12 matches inside the Top 33 with a 7-5 record...At 165, Gabriel Burak is 2-3 in five bouts inside the Top 33...Scott Giffin is up to No. 22 with a 1-5 record inside the Top 33, but with four losses inside the Top 16...Micah Burak is 7-4 inside the Top 33 and 7-2 when not wrestling No. 1 Cam Simaz...Freshman Kyle Cowan is 2-3 at heavyweight with a win over No. 16 Josh Wine of VMI.

Notes: For a wrestler to be counted in the RPI, he must have 17 matches at his weight class, thus Scott Giffin is currently not included with only 12 matches at 174 pounds...If he was included, Penn would likely have six wrestlers listed and all six would have earned an NCAA bid for the EIWA.

Notes: With Penn not competing in any EIWA duals before these were released at the end of last week, not much movement for Penn wrestlers ... However, the final EIWA Rankings in two weeks surely will change based on the recent efforts from Rappo, Giffin and Cowan.

Notes: Not much going on for the Quakers according to InterMat with Burak and Peterkin the only movers...Gabe Burak falls out of the rankings after his 3-1 loss to Eren Civan of Columbia...Peterkin switches spots with Mike Grey at 133 after Grey defeated Rollie in Ithaca...Rappo's close loss to No. 10 Frank Perrelli does not result in any movement at 125.

Amateur Wrestling News Rankings (Feb. 15)

Individual Rankings (Rankings go to No. 20)125 - No. 16 Mark Rappo Last Week: 13133 - No. 8 Rollie PeterkinLast Week: No. 6141 - No. 9 Zack Kemmerer Last Week: No. 9197 - No. 6 Micah BurakLast Week: No. 5Notes: Kemmerer is the only Penn wrestler to stand still according to A.W.N. as Rappo falls three spots while Perrelli climbs ahead of him despite entering the weekend ranked in the Top 10 in the other polls...Peterkin slides two spots while Micah Burak falls one after the return of Minnesota's Sonny Yohn to the lineup.

Notes: Again, everything went as would be expected. Rappo, Peterkin and Micah all move down one spot after losses to top-tier wrestlers and Gabe Burak slides three spots after a loss to unranked Civan.D1CollegeWrestling.net National Rankings